"Extracting value from data is central to the digital
transformation required for businesses to succeed
in the decades to come. Buried in data are insights
that reveals what your customers need and how
they want to receive it, how sales, manufacturing,
distribution, and other aspects of business operations
are functioning, what risks are arising to threaten
the business, and more. That insight empowers your
businesses to reach new customers, develop and
deliver new products, to operate more efficiently
and more effectively, and even to develop new
business models. "

Discover how HPE is responding to the massive growth in enterprise data with intelligent storage. Data helps enterprises find new ways to reach and serve customers to grow profitability, but only when it is available at the right place and the right time. The growing complexity of managing and securing data prevents businesses from gaining its full value. Hewlett Packard Enterprise delivers the world’s most intelligent storage for the hybrid cloud world by providing storage that is driven by artificial intelligence, built for the cloud, and delivered as a service.

With the maturing of the all-flash array (AFA) market, the established market leaders in this space are turning their attention to other ways to differentiate themselves from their competition besides just product functionality. Consciously designing and driving a better customer experience (CX) is a strategy being pursued by many of these vendors.This white paper defines cloud-based predictive analytics and discusses evolving storage requirements that are driving their use and takes a look at how these platforms are being used to drive incremental value for public sector organizations in the areas of performance, availability, management, recovery, and information technology (IT) infrastructure planning.

Technology is a fast-moving target, and organizations need agility and flexibility to compete. By modernizing your data center and maximizing the value of your corporate data, your company can gain those qualities.
In this Forbes Insights checklist, learn how to derive value from your corporate data and embrace three elements of a modernized data center: an agile data infrastructure, a modern approach to data protection, and intelligent data center operations.

Rewrite the rules of injection molding with 3D Systems thermoplastic additive manufacturing printers and materials.
Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) technology is at the heart of a growing trend in mass custom manufacturing as well as functional prototyping. The right additive technologies, materials and finishes are transforming manufacturing.
Digital-direct thermoplastic manufacturing offers exceptional quality while opening the door to novel design parameters not possible with injection molding. Thermoplastic additive manufacturing also bypasses the long lead time and up-front investment in injection molding tooling. If you measure your finished parts on the three dimensions: quality, time to market, and cost per cubic inch, in many situations industrial SLS offers a better total value proposition.
3D Systems offers a wide variety of 3D printable thermoplastics, engineered for a range of applications. Materials specialists, designers, and manufacturing engineers can collaborate on

Red Hat can help you deliver 348% ROI and achieve agile, high-performing infrastructures
Linux® has become the standard operating system for cloud infrastructure as well as the preferred delivery vehicle for modern applications. This is, in part, thanks to it being reliable environment that offers scale, security, and robust application support.
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux expands on this trust and credibility by offering a supported, hardened, enterprise environment that delivers on more efficient operational costs, better reliability and availability, and better scalability. These translate into a better return on investment (ROI) for our enterprise customers.
IDC’s study, “The Business Value of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” interviewed 12 organizations to see how they’re using Red Hat Enterprise Linux to support their business operations. These organizations reported that Red Hat provides a cost-effective, efficient, and reliable operating environment.
There’s a lot to gain with Red H

Hardware technology doesn’t last forever. It has a lifecycle, a measurable beginning and end to its productivity and value. IT is tasked with optimizing the PC lifecycle while driving strategic breakthroughs for their organization. However, the high cost and complexity of PC management leaves IT little time for innovation.
We offer flexible financing options that help assure IT will always have everything they need, when they need it, to keep end users engaged and productive. Learn more about Dell solutions powered by Intel®.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure eBook Guide for the Enterprise
Abstract. Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering.
Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure.
What if your IT teams can take workloads off the traditional IT infrastructure and migrate it to a purpose-built solution that integrates compute, memory, storage, and virtualization? This is what Hyperconverged Infrastructure is all about. HCI appliances deliver extreme reliability, dependable security, extensive and predictable scalability, simplified management, and faster time-to-value.
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure eBook Guide for the Enterprise
Abstract. Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering.
Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure.
What if your IT teams can take workloads off the traditional IT infrastructure and migrate it to a purpose-built solution that integrates compute, memory, storage, and virtualization? This is what Hyperconverged Infrastructure is all about. HCI appliances deliver extreme reliability, dependable security, extensive and predictable scalability, simplified management, and faster time-to-value.
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Business expectations and demands on the data center are increasing and the impact on today’s data centers is staggering.
Organisations that can move quickly to leverage these new opportunities will find themselves in an advantageous position relative to their competitors. But time is NOT on your side! If your IT team often feel that they’re always in catch-up mode because it is difficult to quantify IT contributions, it is time to understand the benefit of hyperconverged infrastructure.
What if your IT teams can take workloads off the traditional IT infrastructure and migrate it to a purpose-built solution that integrates compute, memory, storage, and virtualization? This is what Hyperconverged Infrastructure is all about. HCI appliances deliver extreme reliability, dependable security, extensive and predictable scalability, simplified management, and faster time-to-value.
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• Provide the resilience, scalability and performance to

Branded product pages on the digital shelf have become incredibly important both as a sales and marketing channel. For that reason, most brands are putting time and resources into improving the content of their product pages. But how exactly does content impact the numbers every business relies on? Read this report to get deep statistical insights on how product page content impacts search ranking, online market share, and sales overall.
This study includes a range of analyses to help you quantify the actual sales value of your brand's product content using a variety of methodologies, including:
An analysis of more than 500,000 Amazon search results pages
A full-year examination of 60,000 Amazon product pages across 78 brands working with Salsify
Data and stories from individual Salsify customers that invested in product content optimization
Salsify is the product experience management platform for thousands of brands and retailers worldwide.

Running an IT backend that is secure, scalable and well-managed is resource draining for any enterprise. Challenger, Singapore’s largest IT retailer, took a more pragmatic route by transforming on a Online to Offline (O2O) model. For the journey, it partnered with Rackspace to accelerate the value of its AWS cloud migration, by tapping its proven AWS expertise, strong managed services portfolio, and familiarity with local regulatory compliance and cloud security demands

"Agile" software development is an increasingly popular development process for producing software in a flexible and iterative manner that can deliver value to the enterprise faster, reduce project risk and allow adaptation to changes more quickly.

Tips and best practices for data analytics executives
Organizations today understand the value to be derived from arguably their greatest asset—data. When successfully aggregated and analyzed, data can unlock valuable insights, solve problems, improve products and services, and help companies gain a competitive edge. However, analytics executives face significant challenges in collecting, validating and analyzing data to deliver the right analytic insight to the right person at the right time.
This e-book is designed to help. First, we'll explore the growing expectations for data analytics and the rise of the analytics executive. Then we'll explore a range of specific challenges those executives face, including those around data blending, analytics, and the organization itself, and offer best practices and strategies for meeting them.

Successfully implementing and managing a comprehensive suite of customer experience technologies is essential for global businesses seeking to sustain high levels of customer experience and brand value. However, knowing how to temper the instinct to throw technology solutions at efficiency problems is what distinguishes global customer experience leaders from the rest. New technologies must be balanced with appropriate investment in human resources.
This is the central finding of a global survey of over 550 senior executives conducted by MIT Technology Review to examine the pressures that shape their customer experience processes and the tools and strategies they employ to mitigate those challenges and continuously improve customer engagement.
Read the report to get a detailed look at:
The strategies that differentiates an Iconic firm from other businesses
How strategies vary across regions based on maturity and customer expectations
Future innovation management and technology adopt

What if the cloud could radically improve your customer’s experience, your operations, and your bottom line? There’s a reason why many organisations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud for contact centers.
This eBook, focuses on two profiles for small contact centers, small business and small of large – a small contact center that is part of a much larger enterprise. Get key insights from independent market research that will help you make a case to take your customer communications platform to the cloud. With the right solution, your business can benefit from enterprise-quality capabilities at a price you can afford. And you can realise a return on investment in as little as three months!
Download this eBook and learn:
How to calculate ROI and time-to-value in different types of small contact center profiles
What factors to consider when selecting a cloud vendor
Three common myths about the cloud

Making sense of your data is one of the greatest challenges facing business today. Imagine a world where innovation and time-to-value are accelerated by AI and automation. Hitachi Vantara works at every point along the data value chain from analytics and insight, through intelligent governance to efficient, agile storage. Download this e-book to find out how to turn the business-enabling capital of the digital era into sustainable value.

From resource woes and adopting new releases, to meandering marketing automation paths and understanding standard features — staying afloat in all things Salesforce can make any team a little seasick. We created Navigator, an end-to-end solution to help companies get maximum value out of Salesforce long after go-live. Let our agile approach to your specific needs be the North Star that keeps you from being lost at CRM.

What’s the state of planning in finance?
Our annual benchmarking report, The State of Connected Planning, investigates how leading organizations accelerate business value through Connected Planning. We surveyed over 1,000 planning professionals across all business functions in 45 countries and 18 industries to uncover leading planning trends.
This finance-focused brief contains:
• Key findings from finance professionals
• Challenges faced by finance professionals
• How they believe they can improve their planning processes

Beyond the time-saving and efficiency benefits, marketing automation enables business processes that are essential to any modern marketing department. For B2B companies, this includes lead nurturing, lead scoring, and lead lifecycle management. For B2C companies, it includes cross-sell, up-sell, and customer loyalty. And for all companies, it includes marketing ROI analytics.
Nurture relationships with leads that aren't ready to buy. On average, only 20% of leads are sales-ready when they first come in. This means you need a disciplined process – known as lead nurturing – to develop qualified leads until they are sales-ready. Done well, nurturing can result in 50% more sales leads at 33% lower cost per lead.
Retain and extend customer relationships. The marketer's job is far from finished once someone becomes a customer. For most industries, the real value comes from retaining and deepening the customer relationship over time. This includes selling more of the same product to the cus

Countless studies and analyst recommendations suggest the value of improving security during the software development life cycle rather than trying to address vulnerabilities in software discovered after widespread adoption and deployment. The justification is clear.For software vendors, costs are incurred both directly and indirectly from security flaws found in their products. Reassigning development resources to create and distribute patches can often cost software vendors millions of dollars, while successful exploits of a single vulnerability have in some cases caused billions of dollars in losses to businesses worldwide. Vendors blamed for vulnerabilities in their product's source code face losses in credibility, brand image, and competitive advantage.

The Business Case for Data Protection, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Ounce Labs, is the first study to determine what senior executives think about the value proposition of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. In times of shrinking budgets, it is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information.

With the explosion of unstructured content, the data warehouse is under siege. In this paper, Dr. Barry Devlin discusses data and content as two ends of a continuum, and explores the depth of integration required for meaningful business value.

As organizations have improved service delivery, they have also turned their focus to presenting business value more positively. These organizations are beginning to develop true BSM systems in two ways: by understanding the metrics that successful businesses employ to determine the value of IT, and by linking these metrics and associated business services to IT infrastructure components.

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